Why did you choose the bike you have?
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Scobblelotcher said:
I ride a S1000R.
I love the riding position, after riding sports bikes and always feeling uncomfortable and cramped. I have fairly wide shoulders and poor mobility (especially for life savers) and always felt it was a struggle for me on sports bikes.
The S1000R is almost perfect for me and I can ride it comfortably for long periods, I also felt immediately at home with it on the test ride and love the performance, it’s also very happy bumbling around at low revs in the town where it spends 90% of its life but then has good power to overtake. It’ also got a quick shifter, heated grips and the factory akra setup sounds great. I would like a decat after hearing one of them which sounded wild!
For my use supernakeds are ideal and I’d love to ride both the new Ducati and Kawasaki supernakeds this year!
Genuine question as someone who struggles, if you have poor mobility how do you manually move such a heavy bike around?I love the riding position, after riding sports bikes and always feeling uncomfortable and cramped. I have fairly wide shoulders and poor mobility (especially for life savers) and always felt it was a struggle for me on sports bikes.
The S1000R is almost perfect for me and I can ride it comfortably for long periods, I also felt immediately at home with it on the test ride and love the performance, it’s also very happy bumbling around at low revs in the town where it spends 90% of its life but then has good power to overtake. It’ also got a quick shifter, heated grips and the factory akra setup sounds great. I would like a decat after hearing one of them which sounded wild!
For my use supernakeds are ideal and I’d love to ride both the new Ducati and Kawasaki supernakeds this year!
Pat H said:
Bought this for my wife to potter about on, because she was a bit precious about using her XBR500 in the wet.
It was only £900.
These things were absolutely everywhere in the 1980s, but there are hardly any left now.
It's only a Superdream in a tart's frock, but if you can manage to ignore the gutless motor it's a very pleasant ride.
It was only £900.
These things were absolutely everywhere in the 1980s, but there are hardly any left now.
It's only a Superdream in a tart's frock, but if you can manage to ignore the gutless motor it's a very pleasant ride.
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